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. 2020 Aug 8;99(11):5718–5727. doi: 10.1016/j.psj.2020.07.022

Table 4.

Effect of amino acids-mineral complexed on the organ weight and intestine length of layer chicks at 35 D, reared under thermoneutral conditions.

Treatments Liver
Thymus
Spleen
Bursa
Pancreas
Intestine
Cecum
Intestine
(g) (cm)
IM1 11.51 1.93b 1.60 1.34 1.19 24.53 11.30a 113.78
AACM2 11.72 2.10a 1.61 1.27 1.2 24.76 12.20b 113.15
P-value 0.393 0.031 0.930 0.412 0.667 0.713 <0.01 0.462
SEM 0.117 0.172 0.053 0.040 0.067 0.021 0.442 0.125

a,bMeans lacking a common superscript letter differ, P < 0.05.

1

IM: inorganic mineral.

2

AACM: amino acids-mineral complexed.